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SAN ANTONIO -- Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson is warning VA administrators that he won t tolerate intimidation or retaliation against anyone who calls attention to problems within the veterans health system.Federal investigators are examining allegations that VA supervisors retaliated against 37 employees who filed whistleblower complaints. It included some who complained about improper scheduling practices at the heart of a growing scandal within the VA system.The independent Office of Special Counsel says it has blocked disciplinary actions against three VA employees who reported wrongdoing, including one who was suspended for seven days after complaining to the VA s inspector general about improper scheduling. The agency als stanley cup website o blocked a 30-day suspension without pay for another VA employee who reported inappropriate use of patient re stanley cupe straints and blocked demotion of a third employee wh stanley cup o reported mishandling of patient care funds, a spokesman said Friday.Gibson spoke Friday at a news conference in San Antonio after visiting a VA facility there. During his remarks, he said the VA would follow laws that forbid whistleblower retaliation. The report by the special counsel s office comes amid a furor over allegations that patients have waited three months or more for appointments as VA officials falsified records to cover up delays at VA hospitals and clinics nationwide.Gibson on Friday reiterated that the breach of Wfyp Football fans divided on use of instant replay, CBS News poll finds
SIMON SAYS....In the annals of unconvincing excuses, this one is now quickly rising into gold medal territory. The question is why the CIA never turned over its interrogration videotapes to the 9/11 Commission:A C.I.A. spokesman said that the agency had been prepared to give the Sept. 11 commission the interrogation videotapes, but that commission staff members never specifical stanley mug ly asked for interrogation videos.The review by Mr. Zelikow does not assert that the commission specifically asked for videotapes, but it quotes from formal requests by the commission to the C.I.A. that sought documents, reports and information related to the interrogations.....Mark Mansfield, the C.I.A. spokesman, said that the agency had gone to great lengths to meet the commission s requests, and that commission members had been provided with detailed information obtained from interrogations of agency detainees. Because it was thought the commission could ask about the tapes at some point, they were not destroyed while the commission was active, Mr. Mansfield said.So let s revie stanley nz w:The 9/11 Commission was an official investigative body chartered by both Congress and the president.It specifically asked for documents, reports and information related to detainee interrogations.The CIA knew about the tapes, knew they were germane, and knew the commission was likely to ask for them at some point.But it never revealed their existence and neve stanley sverige r turned them over because no one ever specifically |
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